The authors previous work on the military focused on how emotions were constructed and understood within the military environment. It was found that as opposed to masculinities being a barrier to emotionality (Higate, 2005), they rather provided a lens to which all experiences were understood. For example, some emotional expression was deemed ‘appropriately masculine’ (e.g. if someone was hurt whilst on operation) for a limited period of time, whereas other forms of emotional expression was deemed ‘inappropriately feminine’ (e.g. crying because you are missing family). Thus, masculinities and femininities provided a blueprint for the appropriateness of emotionality. Similar to the Military, Fire fighting and policing in the United Kingdom has traditionally been and remains a male dominated organisation (Baigent, 2001; Lewis, 2004), of which is argued to be linked to construction of this traditional masculine culture within these three organisations (Baigent, 2001; Brown, 1998; Dodsworth, 2007; Higate, 2005; Holdway and Parker, 1998; Sutton, 1992; Piqueo and Greene, 2000 ). The current work sets to conduct 40 interviews with both males and female; 20 with the fire Service and 20 with the Police. These interviews aim to explore how the construction of a ‘good’ police officer/fire fighter mediates emotional expression. In addition, interview data on the Military will be reanalysed, using a different methodological viewpoint; Discourse Analysis. It is hoped that this research will provide more understanding of how gendered discourses moderates how we talk about emotion.